Peru (EYEWITNESS TRAVEL GUIDE) | 
| Author: Dk Publishing
Publisher: DK Travel
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Media: Paperback
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Pages: 353
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Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 4.8 x 0.8
ISBN: 0756636450
Dewey Decimal Number: 918
EAN: 9780756636456
ASIN: 0756636450
Publication Date: May 5, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Book Description
Whether you are planning to visit a city, a region or a country, DK's foolproof 'Eyewitness' approach makes learning about a place a pleasure in itself. All the traditional guidebook subject matter is covered-descriptions of sights, opening times, hotels, restaurants, shopping, entertainment, phrase books etc- but, with the help of specially commissioned illustrations and maps, DK makes essential information easy to access and quick to absorb. No other guides explain the history of a place as clearly in words and pictures. DK Eyewitness Travel Guides-the best guides ever created.
Continuing to expand our South American coverage, this beautifully illustrated Eyewitness guide will be the premier travel book to Peru, with complete coverage of Lima, the Amazon Basin, and, of course, Machu Picchu. Whether your interests lie in floating on Lake Titicaca, watching the condors soar at Colca Canyon or experimenting with South American cuisine, DK Eyewitness Peru will help you find the essence of the Andes.
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An excellent general guide for a complex country May 13, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
It's tough to pick the "best" guidebook for a particular destination, and the proliferation of free travel information on the web makes choosing "the one" even tougher. My wife and I always start with a copy of an EyeWitness guide for the destination: there are pictures on every page, and we find the images help us plan our trip: the guides are particularly good for architecture and art. The practical guides in the back provide a useful overview of currency, hotels and restaurants.
This guide to Peru is a particularly good example of the DK offerings: the images, paper, text, all are up to the high standards of other books in the series. We returned from our trip to Peru two days after the Eyewitness guide arrived, so that we used two other guides during our trip. That experience reinforced our belief that the Eyewitness series is the best starting point for us.
Peru is a very complicated country, and Eyewitness does a superb job of describing that complexity in words and in pictures. Its treatment of Lima was particularly good -- we were lost in the details in the two other books we used on the trip, but Lima came to life clearly in the Eyewitness guide.
Of course, you'll need more specific and detailed guides to many of the attractions: the Inca Trail if you choose to hike it, or Machu Picchu if you visit. But for a comprehensive and visually appealing overview, Eyewitness can't be beat.
Having written that, there is really only one page that matters in deciding whether to buy: the newer the guide the better. This book appeared in a fully revised American edition in May, 2008. That will be very hard to beat for two or three years, in our experience.
Note: DK maintains an excellent website at TravelDK , with updates on many of its guidebooks.
Robert C. Ross 2008
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